The way a little kid holds a crayon and draws of the paper amazes me. To an adult or teenager it looks like scribbles and crayon marks on a page, but to them it’s a picture of a cow or a dog or an airplane or an American flag, maybe it’s their family or the stray or lost dog that showed up at their house. I got to watch the kids draw and paint today they are so simple they don’t care of perfection or their mistakes if it doesn’t work they way they want it to they draw something else but as young adults it’s hard to do that if I mess up on my watercolor project no matter how good the rest of the painting is all I can see is that one mistake.

Today Skylar needed help in her preschool art class, so I skipped my watercolor class and helped her with the bubble art the preschool class was doing. All the kids were under the age of 5. Maya is in Skylars class. I stayed in the class with all 10 kids while Skylar went outside to the basketball court to set up the bubble art.

I watched the kids sitting around the table each had a piece of paper in front of them two boxes of crayons they shared.

Maya was drawing what looked like the badge she earned in her home and family science class last week.

I looked at the paper the class cowboy was drawing a horse and barn. Some on the little girls drew flowers and rainbows, one little boy was drawing a dog. Boone and Waylons cousin was drawing the globe that sat on top of the bookshelf.

Nora ask me to help her draw a frog. That needed up in the whole class learning how to draw a frog. Then Skylar texted and said she was ready for the kids. I lined the kids up and we headed out to the basketball court I grabbed my camera so I could get pictures of them doing there art project outside. I watched threw my camera lens as each kids took the cups Skylar had filled with water dish soap and acrylic paint.

Some of the canvas had only a few rings of paint where the bubbles popped others were covered in the primary colors blue red and yellow. I loved the way the light hit the bubbles that were strangely colored because of the paint. I took several pictures of those. But my favorite picture was the one of Maya I got right in front of her but 2 yards or so away and got her to look at me and blow bubbles. I got a couple pictures of Skylar helping the younger ones.

After the kids were finished with their painting Skylar didn’t have anything planned she thought it would take longer for them to do the bubble paint, but I was glad I grabbed that box of chalk this morning for class because after they were done we got them to stand with their backs to the sun and to play with their shadows then me and Skylar traced their shadows on the concrete.